Reports from the Embassy of the United States of America in Abuja has it that gunshots were fired in its vicinity on Monday afternoon.
Author: Dotun Oladipo
Determined to make an appreciable impact at the National Sports Festival, tagged Eko 2012, the Eko Football male team will this Thursday play a friendly with a National League team, First Bank Football Club of Lagos.The friendly, according to the Lagos State Football association’s Technical Committee Chairman, Dotun Coker, would be played behind closed doors at the Onikan Stadium, Onikan, Lagos.
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has said his administration was fast-tracking the Power Master-Plan in order to meet the targets of power availability.Jonathan said this when he met with a delegation of the Korean Electricity Power Company in Seoul on Monday.
Nigeria is reviewing the incentives currently being granted to investors, in order to encourage international companies willing to invest in the country.Speaking to a delegation from Samsung Heavy Industries, Korea, during a courtesy call on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said he has instructed the Ministry of Trade and Investments to review trade incentives for investors willing to come to Nigeria.
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on Monday in Seoul assured the global community that Nigeria will do everything possible to ensure that adequate safety measures are deployed when the country introduces nuclear power into its energy mix.Speaking at the opening of the Nuclear Security Summit in the South Korean capital, Jonathan declared that Nigeria remains fully committed to complying with all international legal and regulatory requirements for safety and security in the use of nuclear energy.
A Nigerian senator and member of Pan African Parliament, the legislative arm of the African Union, Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman, has condemned in strong terms the military coup in Mali, which toppled the Amadou Toure-led government.A group of about 20 soldiers in military fatigues announced, last Thursday, that Mali was now under the control of the military, while suspending the country’s constitution and dissolving its democratic institutions.
The Federal Government has been advised to review the immigration policy of Nigeria to check the influx of illegal immigrants into the country.Speaking on the spate of gunmen attacks and insecurity situation in the country, the President of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, Comrade Babatunde Ogun, said that the review of the immigration policy would help in reducing crime rate.
In continuation of its malaria eradication programme in the state, the Lagos State Government has conducted a 19-day Indoor Residual Spraying exercise in no fewer than 80,000 households in Maidan Orile in Kosofe Local Government Area, Igbogbo/Baiyeku in Ikorodu Local Government Area and Ibeju/Lekki Local Government Area.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has seized six properties belonging to Dr. Sani Teidi Shuaibu, a former Director, Pension Administration in the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, who is standing trial over a N4.56 billion pension scam.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said it successfully seized narcotic drugs worth N31 billion and arrested 8,639 suspected drug traffickers in 2011. A total of 195,283.917 kilogrames of various drugs were equally traced and seized from drug traffickers across the country.
The agitation for a new wage by civil servants in Oyo State ended on a happy note on Monday with the approval of N19,987.14 minimum wage for the workers across board by Governor Abiola Ajimobi.The workers were, however, mandated to work assiduously to improve on the internally generated revenue of the state in order to give the state the financial muscle to pay the new wage and at the same time deliver on its electioneering promises to the people.
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has written to commiserate with Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State on the death of his mother, Mrs. Theresa Ekpeluchi Chime.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday lost its bid to secure the conviction of three persons over the $180 million Haliburton bribery scandal as Justice Abubakar Umar of an Abuja High Court has struck out the case for want of diligent prosecution.The three persons declared free on Monday by Umar were a former Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Head of Service, Alhaji Ibrahim Aliyu; a retired Air Vice marshal, Abdullahi Bello; and Mohammed Bakari of the Urban Shelter Limited.
Former Head of the Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan. and former President Olusegun Obasanjo will, on March 30, 2012, join other key personalities to present to the public the book titled “The Nigerian Financial System.”The presentation of the book, authored by the past President, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, late Ebenezer Folorunso Oke, is planned to coincide with his birthday.
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has congratulated the opposition candidate in last Sunday’s presidential election runoff in Senegal, Macky Sall, on his emergence as the president-elect.
The hitherto peaceful hometown of a former Vice-President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, Oko, Anambra State, is boiling as students of the Federal Polytechnic located in the town are on the streets protesting the death of one of their colleagues allegedly killed by masquerades of the community.
One of the aggrieved parties in the election of the Nigeria Premier League Board, Hon. Akin Akinbobola, has petitioned the Minister of Sport, Alhaji Bolaji Abdullai.In the petition titled “Current State of the Nigeria Football, particularly The Nigeria Premier League Elections”, Akinbobola vowed to go to court if his matter is not favourably treated.
Players and officials of female U-17 team, Flamingoes, have been decamped by the Nigeria Football Federation following the conclusion of the World Cup qualifying series.Head Coach, Peter Dedevbo, says he intends starting his World Cup camping as soon as he submits his programme to the Technical Department of NFF.
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Barely two weeks after a young lady identified as Faith Akin was allegedly raped to death by a middle aged man, a similar incident has been reported at the Epe Police Station.The report alleged that a 29-year-old man identified as Ime Titus has raped his in-law, Blessing John, 19, to death.